Pillow-sham holder.



No. 794,619. PATENTED JULY 11, 1905.

A. GUTH.

PILLOW SHAM HOLDER.

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No. 794,619. PATENTED JULY 11, 1905. A. GUTH. PILLOW SHAM HOLDER. APPLIOATION FILED 001218. 1904.

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1 UNITED STATES Patented July 11, 1905.

ANNA GUTH, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

PlLLOW-SHAM HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 794,619, dated July 11, 1905.

Application filed October 18, 1904. $erial No. 229,019.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNA GUTH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pillow-Sham Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pillow-sham holders; and my object is to provide a device of this class which shall be capable of easy and quick adjustment from one position to the other and which shall be reliable, durable, and efficient in use as well as ornamental in appearance.

My improved device is longitudinally adjustable, whereby it is adapted for use with beds of any width. It is also adapted for use either with metal or wooden beds, as may be desired.

The invention will now be described in detail, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which is illustrated an embodiment thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a metal bed, showing my improved device in use and in the position when the pillow-shams are down. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the device applied to a wooden bed. Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the device shown Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate parts of the device shown in detail. Fig. 7is an enlarged sectional view showing one of the supportingbrackets in side elevation and the telescoping parts in section. Fig. 8 is a fragmentary detail view of one of the brackets partly broken away. Fig. 9 is a detail view, partly in section, of the telescoping parts. Fig. 10 is a section taken on the line 10 10, Fig. 9.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the views.

Let the numeral 5 designate a hollow bar filled with cork 6 or other suitable light material. This bar is provided with elongated slots 7, through which fastening devices 8 pass. to hold the shams 9 in place. To the central portion of this bar is secured a rod 10 at one extremity, the opposite extremity of the rod being made fast to a bar 12 of the same length as the hollow bar 5. The parts 5, 10, and 12 may be said to constitute the central member of my device. To each extremity of this central member is connected a member composed of parts 13, 1 1, and 15. The part 13 has elongated slots 16, which register with the slots 7 when the members are connected. The part 14 consists of a rod rigidly connected with the part 13 at one extremity, as shown at 17 while its opposite extremity is connected with the tubular part 15. The parts 5 and 12 on each side of the rod 10 of the central member telescope in the hollow parts 13 and 15 of the end members, whereby the device is extensible to adapt it to beds of any width. The bars 16 project beyond the points 17 where they are connected with the rods 14, the said extensions being designated 18, and, as shown in the drawings, terminate in ornamental extremities. These parts 18 are journaled in clips 19, which are pivotally connected, as shown at 20, with U-shaped parts 21, whose extremities remote from the clips 19 are rigidly connected, as shown at 22, with eyes 23, forming bearings in which the parts 18 of the bars 13 are journaled. These eyes form a clamp adapted to be regulated by screws 24.

When the device is applied to metal beds, the clips 19 are clamped to the posts 25, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 7, while when the device is attached to a wooden bed the clips are attached to the wooden posts 26 by means of screws 27, passed through apertured flanges 28. By having the clips movable on the U- shaped brackets at the points they may be adjusted to occupy a horizontal position, whereby they are adapted to engage the vertical posts of a metal bed, or the vertical position,whereby they are adapted to be attached to a wooden bed, as may be desired.

Each clip 19 is provided with a clampingscrew 29, the same being threaded in one part These fastening devices are employed I of the clip, whereby the size of the latter may be suitably adjusted to tightly engage the post which passes therethrough, whereby the brackets are sustained in position. The central bar 5 is also journaled in a clamping-eye 23 of a U-shaped bracket 21, the latter being also provided with a clip 19, adapted to engage a post of a metal or wooden bed, as may be desired and as heretofore explained with reference to the devices which are engaged by the bars 13, in which the opposite extremities of the bar 5 telescope.

In securing the device to a bed the central bracket is first secured in place, whereby the bar 5 is held in position. The end members, composed of the parts 13, 14, and 15, are then adjusted on the central members 5 and 12, according to the width of the bed and in order to bring the end brackets into position to engage the posts of the bed on opposite sides, after which the end brackets are secured to the bed. It will be understood that the parts 5, together with the parts 13 of both end members, are journaled in the eyes 23 of the respective brackets, whereby the pillow-shamsupporting frame, composed of the parts 5 1O 12, and the two members, each composed of the parts 13, 1 1, and 15, may be raised and lowered at pleasure, the bars engaging the eyes of the brackets turning therein, as will be readily understood. After the pillow-sham holder is in place the shams 9 are attached thereto by inserting pins 8 through the shams and into the registering slots 7 and 16 of the telescoping bars 5 and 13. The cork filling6 for the bar 5 is entered by the pins and forms a support therefor. These pins are preferably provided with ornamental heads. Assuming that the shams are attached, as best illustrated in Fig. 1, they may be raised by simply turning the sham-supporting frame in the eyes of the U-shaped brackets until the said frame occupies the position shown in Fig. 3, whereby the shams engage the frame on opposite sides and completely conceal the same when raised. In this case the border of the shams extending above the fastening-pins enters the U-shaped bracket parts 21, whereby the said border is kept perfectly straight and prevented from becoming wrinkled or bent, as would be the case if the U-shaped bracket parts were not employed.

The eye 23 of each end bracket'is provided with a number of recesses A, (see Fig. 7,) adapted to receive a lug or projection B on the extension 18 of the hollow bar 13, the recess A being so located that when the shamsupporting frame is raised to the position shown in Fig. 3 and by dotted lines in Fig. 7 the extensible member may be moved endwise to cause the lug B to engage one of the recesses A. whereby the frame is temporarily locked in the raised position.

Having thus describedmy invention, what I claim is- 1. Apillow-sham-supportingframeconsisting of a central member having a bar provided with slots, and end members, each provided with a hollow bar in which the central member telescopes, the hollow bars being slotted to register with the slots'of the central member andthe latter being provided with a suitable filling, and fastening-pins adapted to be inserted in the registering slots to hold the shams in place, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a central member and end members, one of the end members being slidable on the central member whereby the sham-supporting frame is adapted for use with beds of Varying width, the central member having a filling, the end members being hollow to receive the central member, the telescoping parts being provided with registering openings, and fastening devices passing through the said openings to hold the sham in place.

3. A support for shams or similar articles, consisting of an apertured bar, an apertured hollow member in which the bar telescopes, the latter being tubular and provided with a filling, and fastening devices adapted to enter the registering apertures of the two members when properly adjusted, substantially a described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANNA GUTH.

Witnesses:

DENA NELSON, A. J. OBRIEN. 

